big Data, big insights, big Results

“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible” -Alan Turing

Predicting a better future

In this complex world, our daily lives are increasingly impacted by big data and machine learning. Our mission is to bring order to data to enable better and smarter investment and business decisions.

“The world is one big data problem.” Andrew McAfee

Financial AI

A huge amount of data is generated continuously across the globe. This "big data" is characterized by a massive sample size and high dimensionality, compared with traditional datasets where the sample size is typically larger than the dimension. These attributes generate unique challenges in modeling; commonly employed computational and statistical methods are simply not adequate for effectively analyzing big data.

The key to value creation from big data is through advanced technologies, such as machine learning, which are able to unearth complex schema.

"Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” Peter Sondergaard

Processing billions of targeted data records 24/7 from a diverse and growing number of data sources, our algorithms have no personal opinions, or guesses, and learn from their mistakes.

ENTERPRISE SOLUTION

Most organizations are not able to capture and process external data sources at scale, yet alone make sense of complex intelligence to inform decision making.

Our enterprise solution is a new business fundamentals prediction tool that generates highly accurate financial predictions and insights using machine-learning algorithms applied to real-time big data.

The AI platform has an intuitive and customizable user interface and is designed to help companies with demand prediction, financial planning, identifying latent macroeconomic risks, and discovering industry inflections.

About

We are a group of passionate technologists, mathematicians, data scientists and programmers in Silicon Valley with over 100 patents to our names.

Big Data Federation was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Silicon Valley, California.

JOBS

VP of Software Engineering (Silicon Valley)

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Employment Type: Regular full time

Company: Big Data Federation predicts financial and economic performance by using machine-learning algorithms and big data. Our AI-based Enterprise SaaS solution solves the key challenge facing companies of how to correctly predict market demand and sales. We are unique in that we fuel our predictions with massive amounts of interconnected data, from the company to the macroeconomy level. Our solutions are already deployed by Fortune 100 companies. We are a venture-backed team of technologists, mathematicians, data scientists, and programmers.

Job Profile: We are seeking a VP of Software Engineeringto build a world class team of developers and set the pace and standard for executing against ambitious timelines solutions. Our growing engineering team is located in Silicon Valley and Eastern Europe. You will report directly to the CEO.

Key focus for the role:

Technical vision, roadmap, execution, and delivery of our solutions

Oversee hiring, contracting, and development of the engineering team

Provide visibility to the leadership team on the development roadmap, budget, and expected timelines

Responsibilities include:

Own the development and delivery of the entire technical solution – through design, build and scale of the software architecture

Work directly with our teams to understand end user and internal application requirements, formulate use cases, and translate these into pragmatic and effective technical solutions

Leverage your technical expertise to deliver solutions in a time and resource efficient manner

With ideal UX in mind take account of the challenges entailed in presenting large and complex data sets

Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Git/Github, Unix/POSIX shell, networking, databases and key-value stores, big data (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and front-end development (javascript/D3), ready and able to get hands dirty and review/comprehend/contribute to architecture and code

Education. We value intelligence, personality, experience and overall fit over a particular degree

Director of Sales & Marketing, Enterprise (Silicon Valley)

Company: Big Data Federation predicts financial and economic performance by using machine-learning algorithms and big data. Our AI Enterprise SaaS solution solves the key challenge facing companies of how to correctly predict market demand and sales. We are a venture-backed team of technologists, mathematicians, data scientists, and programmers.

Job Profile

You will lead and champion sales of our new AI Enterprise SaaS solution and leverage your strong relationships with industry, including C-level (especially CFO/CEO) connections in technology companies. You’ll conceive, build, and execute B2B Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy including identifying potential partnerships to scale. This is a highly-visible hands on role which reports directly to the CEO.

Job Profile: We are seeking an enthusiastic Data Scientist to be a contributor to our predictive analytics platform. You will create application pipelines which pull data from a universe of ingested datasets and refine them to extract information for use in our predictions. You will help design and implement machine-learning algorithms and micro-services. In many cases the data sizes will necessitate implementation on distributed computing platforms.

We seek mathematically-inclined software engineers, and scientists/mathematicians with an aptitude for computer science.

Qualifications

Strong background in classical machine learning and deep knowledge in a variety of techniques in feature selection, regression, classification, and clustering, and their real-world advantages and drawbacks.

Job Profile: As Product Manager, you will evolve our new AI Software as a Service enterprise solution to solve real-world problems. You’ll identify enterprise customer needs, define the product roadmap, and manage the execution of product features. You’ll bring a passion for high-quality work, an ability to make and keep demanding commitments, and have a track-record of excellence in customer satisfaction. You’ll work through product challenges large and small, from the microinteractions of a first-time product use to complex system level problems. You’ll be good working with rendering ambiguity into a solid plan.

Duties:

Do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful

Define feature requirements and coordinate with engineering on execution

Job Profile: As a senior software engineer you will be involved with automating the ingestion of large amounts of data into the data platform, architecting the data platform, and writing APIs for accessing the data and tests to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. You will help promote best practices and review the engineering team’s code. You will also help manage day-to-day administrative tasks and engineering processes, such as scrum meetings.

Responsibilities include:

Develop/maintain data platform to ingest data and validate/store it in our cloud, and serve it up to applications through internal APIs

Job Profile: We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to play a key role in operating our cloud infrastructure and applications. The ideal candidate should have both development and operational experience, and be passionate about automating operational processes and managing critical systems with zero downtime. You will maintain the existing infrastructure and add new functions. You’ will work across multiple teams from application engineers to platform engineers and data scientists to automate the deployment, configuration and management of cloud infrastructure in AWS.

Specific Responsibilities to Include:

Plan and deploy high availability solutions for DevOps services

Install, configure manage and extend a variety of software systems including software for version control, continuous integration, continuous deployment, performance data collection and analysis, systems monitoring and more

Job Profile: You will join an experienced and diverse team of software engineers and data scientists as a key contributor to our predictive analytics platform, where you will be responsible for ingesting new data sources into our data platform: this entails creating docker containers which customize the retrieval, post-processing/validation and storage of each data source into our private cloud. You will work with data vendors and our own data scientists to optimize the ingestion process for each source: from prototype through deployment as a micro-service to our data platform. You are encouraged to develop your full-stack engineering skills so you can help develop/maintain the data platform itself.

We particularly seek passionate, data-oriented candidates who are eager to learn new skills, and to mentor their colleagues in areas where they themselves excel.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or higher degree in computer science, or an engineering/math/statistics/science discipline with a strong CS component.

UI/UX Designer (Remote)

Location: Remote

Employment type: Contract

Job Description: We have created a highly interactive real-time HTML5 dashboard. We are looking for a UI designer to further develop the product. The designer will work closely with the front-end engineers and rest of the team. He/she should be able to build upon a highly visually appealing web portal with manoeuvrable elements and a customizable dashboard.

CSS and HTML5, java, D3 experience a plus.

Designers should be based in the SF Bay area in order to be able to work with the rest of the team at the office when needed.

Job Profile: As a senior software engineer you will be involved with automating the ingestion of large amounts of data into the data platform, architecting the data platform, and writing APIs for accessing the data and tests to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. You will help promote best practices and review the engineering team’s code. You will also help manage day-to-day administrative tasks and engineering processes, such as scrum meetings.

Responsibilities include:

Develop/maintain data platform to ingest data and validate/store it in our cloud, and serve it up to applications through internal APIs

Job Profile: We're looking for a Quality Assurance engineer to help test our enterprise website and data platform. You’ll write code to ensure the website is high quality and user friendly. In addition, you’ll ensure the integrity our large data sets, which power the website. You’ll be able to set the foundation for QA processes and tools going forward.

Qualifications

Strong background in software testing and best practices

Experience testing websites, both web and mobile

Able to automate tests and test reports

Experience with Python, Ruby, or a similar scripting language

Knowledge of HTML, Javascript

Knowledgeable of common web security issues

Detail oriented and not afraid to ask questions

Familiar with JIRA, Asana, Trello or similar tracking tool

Compensation

We offer attractive industry-level salaries, based on performance/experience, level and skills, as well as paid time off.

Job Profile: As a data engineer, you will join an experienced and diverse team of software engineers and data scientists as a key contributor to our predictive analytics platform, where you will be responsible for ingesting new data sources into our data platform.

You will develop/maintain the docker-based data platform to ingest data from external sources and validate/store it in our cloud (centralized databases and distributed stores), and serve it up to applications (centralized and distributed) through internal APIs

You will develop a new application platform to sit on top of the data platform to make available applications performing higher-level algorithmic operations on data via ingested data APIs. The work could be focused on back-end or front-end, although full stack is preferable